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Bypassing "wifi pausing" (reddthat.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by awsome@reddthat.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm currently stuck in a used bedroom infested with flies at the time of writing this.

My parents have decided to block internet whenever I try to move my PC back upstairs. Asking them wouldn't work out because it usually falls on deaf ears.

A few days ago, they moved it without my knowledge, and I noticed that my folding table was gone from my bedroom.

I'm planning to set it back up again, but they might turn my internet off when they catch me. I'm trying to get a few ideas and create a plan to move my PC back upstairs.

I found a few tutorials on getting through parental controls, but the tutorials are done on Windows and parental controls are set up using TP-Link.

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[–] Still@programming.dev 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

there's two possibilities for this wifi blocking:

it's setup to only allow whitelisted devices, in this case you're fucked, only option is to pretend to be some whitelisted device
it's a blacklist, in this case changing your mac address will make you appear to be a new device, anyone monitoring the device list could see the unknown device appear

[–] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I know nobody likes a know-it-all. But FYI: The current suggestion is to call these allowlist and blocklist. I'm not sure how they're called on the router. The terms have been out there for a few years already.

[–] papalonian@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are people really trying to make blacklist and whitelist a race thing? Good Lord.

Are we going to start referring to cables as having female-identifying ends and male-identifying ends? Are USB-C cables non-binary?

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That discussion happened a few years ago and most actively-developed projects using those terms have stopped or are stopping.

Also, btw, while hermaphroditic connectors have always been a thing, in the USB world cables tend to have male connectors on both ends regardless of if they're A-to-B, A-to-C, C-to-C, or have one of the many B variants.

[–] populustree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago

Are we going to start referring to cables as having female-identifying ends and male-identifying ends? Are USB-C cables non-binary?

hi, nonbinary person here

no, you fucking doughnut! just say plug/socket or port/plug or keep calling it M/F, there are thousands of better fights to fight than this, and if anyone says otherwise, let them yell at the clouds alone.

[–] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wow. Just wow. I'm deliberately not replying to any single comment. I didn't know this is such an emotionally charged topic. And I don't like it.

I know the relation to 'race' and that being the cause for people arguing about it a few years ago. But isn't it a better term? If I want to block something with my firewall... I'm putting it on the blocklist (or deny-list). If I want to allow something... It's on the allowlist. Forgive me, maybe I'm a nerd and I don't care so much about the etymology. Why bring in (random) colors? Can I please use the term because I think it fits better?

And the discussion immediately shifting to connector genders... Well. Yeah I get it, it's a funny subject. And comparing something with protruding parts to a penis is funny. Also for me... But you people immediately having trouble with the terms, (rightfully) bringing in hermaphroditic connectors. And there being several disctinct/binary ones but with ambiguities so that it's more convention than protruding bits in case of electronics... It just shows naming connector sides that way is a stupid idea. It get's you most of the way but after that, it just confuses people and stops describing anything useful. I'm a bit unsure about this. Because it's one of the few accepted penis jokes you can make at work or a conference (at least innuendo). And I don't want to lose all of them. But it has never been a good 'analogy' in the sense that it is a good descriptive way to name connectors.